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Anthony Veasna So
Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.
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Bunkong Tuon
Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.
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Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.
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Chanda Ouk Wolf
Cambodian American children's book author whose picture book connects Cambodian American families to the donut-shop trade.
Author, Oral historian
Chanrithy Him
Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.
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Chath pierSath
Cambodian American poet and painter who divides his time between a Massachusetts farm and Cambodia.
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Christine Su
Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.
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Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
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Erik W. Davis
American scholar of Buddhism and professor of religious studies at Macalester College whose research focuses on Cambodia.
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Franklin E. Huffman
American linguist of Southeast Asian languages who wrote the standard Yale series of Cambodian language textbooks and readers.
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George Chigas
Scholar of Cambodian literature and culture who recorded oral histories and photographs of Cambodian American life in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Haing S. Ngor ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ
Cambodian physician, actor and memoirist whose autobiography recounts his survival of the Khmer Rouge period.
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Kim DePaul
Editor and nonprofit director who co-edited a collection of Cambodian survivor memoirs.
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Linda Crew
American novelist whose young adult novel Children of the River follows a Cambodian refugee teenager in Oregon.
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Loung Ung អ៊ឹង លួង
Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.
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Martha E. Kendall
American author and community college educator who co-wrote Nawuth Keat's Khmer Rouge survival memoir.
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Monica Sok
Cambodian American poet whose work addresses the Khmer Rouge period and its inheritance.
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Nawuth Keat
Cambodian survivor of the Khmer Rouge period who told his life story in the memoir Alive in the Killing Fields.
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Nite Yun ណែត យុន
Cambodian American chef and restaurateur in San Francisco and author of the cookbook My Cambodia.
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Patricia McCormick
American journalist and young adult novelist whose novel Never Fall Down is based on the life of Arn Chorn-Pond.
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Peuo Tuy
Khmer American spoken word poet and community organizer who helped found the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
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Sokunthary Svay
Khmer American poet, librettist and scholar who co-founded the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
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Sue J. Kim
Professor of English who directs the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and its oral history collecting in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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